On Mon, Nov 09, 2009 at 07:04:22PM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote:
> the lintian error dir-or-file-in-var-www exists for a long time, and I
> believe that most packages with active maintainers have already been
> split according to the FHS. What I question is whether it is worth the
> effort to move the content of /usr/share/<package> to
> /usr/share/www/<package>:
>
> - How many purely static websites do we distribute as Debian packages?
> (Note that /usr/share/doc/<package> is already served as http://localhost/doc/package/)
>
> - How many dynamic websites will start to work out of the box without
> the need for a specific configuration for each webserver?
I now understand better your argument, thanks for rephrasing. I don't
have an answer, because I haven't done the test, but I do agree that it
would be interesting to know in advance. Still, it is not exactly clear
to me how to test this, how would you automatically discover whether a
package has a static splash screen (note indeed that it is not only
about "purely static" web applications, but also about "regular"
webapps, with a static splash screen).
>
> I checked at the web application I maintain (emboss-explorer), and in its
> particular case, it would still need an apache.conf file. That is not enough to
> make statistics, so I am just asking if there will be many packages that can
> take advantage of the proposed reorganisation. [And unfortunately source.debian.net
> looks borken again…].
Can you perhaps explain why so?
I frankly hope that with /vendor/ + /usr/lib/cgi-bin/ (which we already
have), and maybe with some symlinks under /vendor/ we will be able to
address quite a lot of issues. It would be interesting to known which
one we can't.
Now that I think of it, probably a per-package data dir would help, but
that can be a tad more tricky due to single-instance of
multiple-instance nature of the webapp in question ...
> Of course, if the use of /usr/share/www/<package> is optional,
> everybody wins.
It is forcibly optional: if you have some static content you should use,
otherwise not.
Cheers.
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